Skirts I made...

[Uncle Al]

Each to their own but, IMHO, kilts AND skirts should be worn at the 'natural' waist, at the navel/belly-button.
Worn this way(at the navel), my stomach doesn't look like it's suffering from the "furniture disease' or
'Dunlap disease'. (That's where the chest has fallen into the drawers, or the stomach has 'lapped' over the belt.)
IMHO this looks hideous with pants, too. It's like a person is trying to emphasize the abdomen instead of a clean
over-all look.

Just my $.02 worth

Uncle Al

[Kay]

For my skirts I made them longer in the back and the construction is that I try to get a horizontal hem and a horizontal hip line. Therefor the waist is tilted and higher in the back. If there are pleats involved, construction becomes a small nightmare...

Could you share how you construct that? I measured and I have about an inch or two difference in between the front and back. I used to juts ignore that but it becomes a bit more pronounced with shorter skirts.

[Yaun]

This skirt viewtopic.php?p=276320#p276320
started with constructing the waist line:

SkirtConstrunction_1.png

It's the red and green line at the left. For that I draw horizontal lines for the heights at the front, at the back and at the sides. Then I draw a curve with horizontal ends and a length of half my waist-circumference (hidden beneath the colored line segments). The point where it crosses the sides should be approximately at half of the length, but this depends on your individual shape. Then I draw two other horizontal lines, one for the height, where I'm the widest (hip-width more or less) and one for the skirt length. For the given skirt, I wanted to do eight panels with box pleats in between, but the panels should lay next to each other and give enough space when I stand straigth up. Therefor I marked the widths of the panels and divided the single waist curve into four segments (these are the red and green curves). from that on, I split the waist curve and arranged it with the hip widthsto form the panels and extended them to the bottom (right of the picture).

Then I smoothed out the curves and added seam and hem allowences, constructed the box pleat parts (here they are individual panels, not integrated), special box pleats with side pockets, the waist band, additional parts for the front zipper, belt loops, and the back pockets:

SkirtConstrunction_2.png

These parts were then printed and cut out to get a pattern, which I could draw onto the fabric. Sewing. That's all...

Edit: Sorry, linked wrong post.